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and also the sides of the prothorax have a very short, somewhat 
greyish, inconspicuous pubescence, the elytra are glabrous; the 
clypeus is straight in front with the outer angles moderately 
rounded, the suture is sub-carinate laterally and almost obliterated 
in the centre, and the whole head is very finely and very closely 
punctured; the prothorax is as finely and as closely punctured as 
the head and has a plain longitudinal groove in the anterior part ; 
scutellum very finely punctulate ; elytra sub-parallel, somewhat 
coarsely punctured, plainly coriaceous, and with three fairly dis- 
tinct striz on each side, in addition to the sutural stria; pygidium 
sloping and clothed with a very short appressed pubescence ; ab- 
domen with a similar pubescence; pectus clothed with a dense 
greyish-flavescent and long pubescence; antennal club 5-jointed, 
the fifth joint of the pedicel is laminate and one-fourth the length 
of the club, the fourth is very angular, and the third bead-like, but 
also slightly aculeate in the centre. 
Female: More massive than the male, and with the elytra deeply 
sinuate laterally in front of the median part, and conspicuously 
ampliated thence; the clypeus has the outer angles more broadly 
rounded than in the male, the suture is not interrupted in the 
middle, nor carinate laterally, and the anterior frontal part is deeply 
depressed ; the punctures on the prothorax are deeper and broader, 
and the median impressed line is continued further towards the base; 
the elytra are not so coriaceous, the punctures are equally deep 
but rounder, the dorsal striz are obliterated, and the sutural one 
ill-defined ; the pubescence on the pygidium and under side is the 
same as in the male, the posterior tibize are broadly dilated, and the 
spurs also broadly dilated, and spear-shaped; there are wings under 
the elytra; the club is 5-jointed, fairly long, but thick, ovate, and 
with the two apical joints, especially the last one, shorter than any 
of the other three. 
Length 31-33 mm.; width 16-20 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town). 
PLEIOPHYLLA, n. gen. 
Buccal organs of Macrophylla and Algostetha, which it closely 
resembles, the anterior tibiz are also tri-dentate outwardly and have 
no inner spur, the antennal club, however, consists of six long, 
curved, laminate joints, and the fourth joint of the pedicel is also 
similarly laminate but moderately short; the inner tooth under the 
anterior claws is very long. 
